Moments of the inverse-Wishart family #
At the standard scale, each diagonal entry has an inverse-gamma law. The proof uses Cholesky coordinates of the source Wishart matrix. Orthogonal congruence transports this law to every diagonal entry. It also makes the off-diagonal means vanish. Congruence by a square root carries the standard mean to a positive-definite scale.
For a positive-definite scale S and degree above the threshold p + 1,
the mean is (n - p - 1)⁻¹ • S.
This threshold is sharp within the valid family:
for a positive-definite scale in positive dimension,
the matrix is not integrable when p - 1 < n ≤ p + 1.
Main results #
TauCeti.Probability.map_coe_apply_inverseWishartMeasure_oneidentifies each diagonal marginal.TauCeti.Probability.integrable_id_inverseWishartMeasuregives integrability above the threshold.TauCeti.Probability.integral_id_inverseWishartMeasurecomputes the mean above the threshold.TauCeti.Probability.not_integrable_id_inverseWishartMeasureproves sharpness in positive dimension.TauCeti.Probability.integrable_id_inverseWishartMeasure_zerocovers integrability in dimension zero.TauCeti.Probability.integral_id_inverseWishartMeasure_zerocomputes the mean in dimension zero.
References #
- R. J. Muirhead, Aspects of Multivariate Statistical Theory, Wiley, 1982, chapter 3.
- M. L. Eaton, Multivariate Statistics: A Vector Space Approach, IMS Lecture Notes 53, chapter 8.
The law of a diagonal entry at the standard scale #
The mean #
Every diagonal entry of an inverse-Wishart matrix of standard scale is inverse gamma, with
shape (n - p + 1) / 2 and scale 1 / 2. Equivalently, the reciprocal of a diagonal entry is
chi-squared with n - p + 1 degrees of freedom.
An inverse-Wishart matrix is integrable above the degree threshold p + 1.
The mean of an inverse-Wishart law of degree n and positive-definite scale S is
(n - p - 1)⁻¹ • S, for a degree above the threshold p + 1; in positive dimension, at a valid
degree at or below the threshold the identity is no longer integrable.
Below the degree threshold p + 1 an inverse-Wishart matrix is not integrable, in every
positive dimension, as long as the degree is that of a genuine member of the family: a diagonal
entry then has an inverse-gamma law of shape at most one. Below the valid range the law is zero
and the statement fails for want of any mass.